She sees Coriolanus not as a purely self-sufficient aristocratic husbandman, nor even in a more correctly Xenophonic supervisory role, but as the seasonal hired hand of that great impersonal husbandman, the commonwealth.

Although growth metaphors--teacher as nurturer, husbandman, gardener--place tremendous responsibilities on teachers to create the inner and outer environments most conducive to learning (to prepare the soil), they also underscore how learning always involves hard and persistent work and a measure of serendipity, of plain and often dumb good luck, and suggest the lively presence of magic and mystery.

Rossetti's poetry returns again and again to the inadequacy of current-day artists when judged by their predecessors: his three-sonnet sequence in The House of Life subtitled "Old and New Art," for example, contains a curious admonition to Rossetti and his contemporaries to continue to work even "Though God has since found none such as these were"--that is, the first laborers in the arts--"To do their work like them" ("The Husbandman," ll.

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